Counterattack

"Senior Brother, the Three Pure Ones actually dared to scheme against the Western Religion like this. We cannot let this matter rest!"

The instant Fumo's primordial spirit was forcibly drawn into the Investiture Register, the two finally sensed everything that had happened in the Human Realm.

Ordinarily, Sages surveyed the Primordial Wilderness and perceived heaven's secrets. Even amid a calamity cycle, they should never have remained oblivious to such a earthshaking upheaval in the Human Realm.

Yet throughout the entire battle, heaven's secrets had been utterly obscured, with layer upon layer of cause and effect veiling them. The two Sages had noticed nothing at all.

Across the vast Primordial Wilderness, very few beings could conceal an entire battle so perfectly while blocking the perceptions of two Sages at once. Only the Three Pure Ones possessed that ability.

Fury surged in Jieyin's and Zhunti's eyes. Their gazes abruptly locked onto Yuan Chen and Xi Yao, who were battling them, with a bone-piercing chill.

Now they understood: this confrontation had never been a coincidence.

Had no one held them back, the two Sages would certainly have sensed the danger when Fumo was surrounded. Even if they could not preserve his physical body, they could have intervened forcibly to retrieve and protect his primordial spirit.

But Yuan Chen and Xi Yao had occupied their attention, leaving them no chance to divert their focus to the Human Realm. In the end, they had missed their opportunity and could only watch as Fumo perished and entered the Investiture Register.

Yuan Chen and Xi Yao exchanged a glance, both sighing silently inwardly.

Nothing in this world came free. The terms the Three Pure Ones had promised were extraordinarily generous, and the corresponding price and risks had arrived right on schedule.

Though neither knew exactly what had